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Overview

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Carbon filters help remove odors and discoloration from your aquarium water

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Will not raise phosphate levels

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For freshwater and marine aquariums

Fluval Ultragrade Carbon is ideally suited as a fine water scrub and is best placed in the lowest or middle modules. By placing before any biologically specific media, it will strain and adsorb tiny particles, dissolved impurities and remove dyes, medications, and odors. Place the carbon in a filter bag or place a thin polyester padding over the grid to prevent falling through as Ultragrade Carbon is smaller than the Fluval Module bottom grid. Change carbon monthly. Rinse before use.

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Directions: Rinse thoroughly before use to remove fine dust due to handling. Place directly into chamber or nylon filter bag. When using in Fluval Canister Filters, Carbon must be in nylon filter bag.

Customers Reviews

Rated 5 out of 5 by polecat Best carbon for keeping the tank clean.
Adsorbs and disssolves impurities and removes dyes and odors.
February 12, 2016

Rated 5 out of 5 by JohnK Good Value
Convenient and good value for a canister filter -- does the job.
March 25, 2013

Rated 5 out of 5 by Verified Reviewer great product
Works great with Fluval filtration systems and their associated products. Depending on the size of your tank, number of fish and how good a job your pleco does, you might not need to change your filter media for 3 months with this product. :o)
October 24, 2012

Rated 5 out of 5 by Ericka The best Carbon Media
I was using another Chemical media mark when I made a mistake by adding too much medicine to my 100 gal saltwater aquarium to heal my Coral Beauty, the tank was messed up full of foam for 3-5 days, I got this media to put in my FLUVAL G6 filter and next morning foam medicine dissapeared!!!!
It comes with bag already I LOVE THIS PRODUCT!!
September 20, 2012

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Thank you for your question. This item does not need to be placed in another media bag. It should be used in the bag it comes in, or you can empty multiple of those bags into one large media bag, depending on the size of the filter.

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Thank you for your question. Use as many carbon packs as needed to loosely fill the media basket. Because you can place one, two, or even three different kinds of media in each basket, you will be able to design a system that provides additional mechanical filtration, as well as biological and chemical filtration in the widest possible variety of combinations.

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